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Tangrams 3 – exploring halves
Use tangram pieces and strategies such as visualising to explore the connection between fractions and surface area of 2D shapes. Then challenge students to explore all the different ways they can show half using a given rectangle.
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| Year level(s) | Year 3, Year 4 |
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| Audience | Student, Teacher |
| Purpose | Teaching resource, Teaching strategies |
| Format | Video |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Questioning, Targeted teaching, Concrete Representational Abstract model |
| Keywords | rectangle, square, triangle, parallelogram, half, area, visualising, surface area, shape, reasoning, problem solving, explicit teaching |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Curriculum connections | Numeracy |
| Strand and focus | Number, Space, Measurement, Build understanding |
| Topics | Fractions, Shapes and objects |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M3N02
Recognise and represent unit fractions including 12, 13, 14, 15 and 110 and their multiples in different ways; combine fractions with the same denominator to complete the whole
AC9M4N03
Find equivalent representations of fractions using related denominators and make connections between fractions and decimal notation |
| Numeracy progression |
Interpreting fractions (P5)
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Copyright details |
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| Organisation | NSW Department of Education |
| Copyright | © State of New South Wales (Department of Education), 2020 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated. |
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